[mou-net] Falls Creek SNA; Wm. O'Brien SP prothonotary young

2009-07-04 Thread linda whyte
We spent the morning hiking Wind-in-the-Pines Nature Area and the adjacent Falls Creek SNA ( on the St. Croix River, north of Copas, off highway 95, Washington Co.). There was ample song from the Acadian flycatchers along the main creek in the SNA. Also present there, was the Louisiana waterthrush.

[mou-net] American white pelicans Cook County

2009-07-04 Thread Dory
In Schroeder ,just East of Taconite Harbor 3 American White Pelicans came in just after the 4th of July Parade. Looks like they are bedding down for the nite on a rock just off the shore of Lake Superior, maybe waiting for the FIREWORKS . Dory Spence Schroeder, MN Cook County Join or

[mou-net] Brown Pelican

2009-07-04 Thread Dennis and Barbara Martin
Spent the morning looking for the Brown Pelican with no success. Also did check some of the lakes further south but like Jefferson and German, there many areas that cannot be seen from the shore. Dennis Martin Shorewood, MN dbmar...@skypoint.com Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu

[mou-net] 2 Snowy Egrets ~ Hennepin County

2009-07-04 Thread Conny Brunell
There were "2" Snowy Egrets present at the Purgatory Creek Wetlands in Eden Prairie, Hennepin County from 1:40pm - 2:00pm while I was there. They were foraging together around the perimeter of the bare mudflat amongst the many Great Egrets and Great Blue Herons. Conny Brunell Richfield, Hennep

[mou-net] Cattle Egret - MVNWR

2009-07-04 Thread Bruce Baer
At 1:25 the Cattle Egret was at the observation deck west of the parking lot at the Old Cedar Avenue Bridge. It was on the very right side of the pool walking in the grass. It would occasionally disappear, but come back out to the water's edge. There were 25 Great Egrets in the area also. A

[mou-net] Lake Vadnais Egrets!

2009-07-04 Thread Gail Wieberdink
There were 113 egrets in the trees and along the north and west edge (along Rice Street) of Lake Vadnais this afternoon. We have never seen that many egrets at one time. No sign of the pelicans today but we saw them flying around near the TV towers along 694 yesterday. There were 13 trumpeter sw

[mou-net] Cattle Egret Cedar Avanue Bridge Hennepin County

2009-07-04 Thread james otto
Today, a group of six, Leslie Marcus, Phyllis Bofferding, Ruth Hiland, 2 grad students which I can't remember there names forgive me and me, refound the Cattle Egret reported in the weekly MOU-RBA on July 2 2009. The bird was seen in flight at close range from the observation deck to the west of th